J.K. Rowling marks anniversary of first social media post calling out trans activists

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J.K. Rowling paid tribute to a special day from five years ago — when she spoke out against transgender activists.

The Harry Potter author reshared an old Twitter post from Dec. 19, 2019, in which she spoke up in defence of a British woman who had been fired after she claimed there were only two sexes.

It was her tweet questioning women being forced “out of their jobs for stating that sex is real” that unleashed the activist in her, as Rowling became increasingly outspoken against those who say that biological women and trans women are the same.

“Five years ago today and my only regret is that I didn’t speak out sooner,” she wrote on Wednesday of her old post.

“To every girl and woman who’s paid a heavy price for fighting to retain their rights and boundaries, to every person striving to halt an appalling medical experiment on minors, I salute you.”

She added: “We will win.”

Ever since that 2019 tweet, Rowling has been at the centre of many gender battles and branded a right-wing TERF (Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist), which she has repeatedly denied.

Despite the backlash, Rowling has doubled down on her stance and continues to rip critics with her whip-smart, sharp-tongued words as she is a best-selling author, after all.

In 2020, Rowling eviscerated an article referring to women as “people who menstruate.”

She mocked the piece, writing, “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

Earlier this year, during the U.K.’s Mother’s Day, Rowling was blasted for her “Happy Birthing Parent Day” post.

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When Scotland introduced its new hate crime law, which could see people arrested for using a trans person’s wrong pronouns, the writer dared authorities to “arrest” her.

In 2020, Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson denounced the author’s views, but Rowling didn’t back down.

In fact, this year, Rowling shared a medical review showing “kids have been irreversibly harmed” by undergoing transitioning procedures , and one follower predicted Radcliffe and Watson would eventually offer up a “very public apology” to her.

But Rowling posted that the actors can “save their apologies.”

She added: “Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.”